Vice President Kamala Harris: The Strong Trailblazing Leader America Needs

Washington, D.C. (July 25, 2024) — Brent Booker, General President of LIUNA — the Laborers’ International Union of North America — made the following statement after the unanimous vote of the union’s General Executive Board to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president:

On behalf of its more than one-half million members, the Laborers’ International Union of North America strongly endorses Vice President Kamala Harris to be the next President of the United States.

Vice President Harris has been a key partner in leading the most pro-union White House ever. She played a critical role in advancing the biggest investment in our nation’s infrastructure in modern times, and in doing so is helping to create hundreds of thousands of good union jobs. She has been a trusted partner in bringing jobs back to the U.S. by reviving our manufacturing base. Through the Inflation Reduction Act, the Vice President has helped transform renewable energy jobs into family-supporting union jobs.

Vice President Harris, through her advocacy for the American Rescue Plan, helped save the hard-earned pensions of more than 1 million union workers and retirees, and she has pushed to lower prescription drug costs for all, especially retirees.

Her forceful advocacy for unions as leader of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment underscores her commitment to working men and women and the power of unions to improve lives.

Kamala Harris is the strong, trailblazing leader America needs. As a tough, seasoned prosecutor, she has the intelligence, skills and tenacity to win against a dangerous convicted felon who hopes to use lies and hate to return to the White House. She will keep President Biden’s torch alive and shining bright.

As President, Kamala Harris will continue to defend the building blocks of strong families: union rights, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, secure pensions, economic growth, and more. And she will be a warrior for the building blocks of a strong democracy: civil rights, voting rights, and basic human rights, as evidenced by her launch of the effort to use union labor to finally replace thousands of lead pipes that put children at risk.

The men and women of LIUNA, who go to work each day to build America are ready to defend America and move our nation forward with President Kamala Harris.